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Its main purpose is to centralize the infrastructure required for the development of Brazilian athletes, including teaching and training, with the help of professionals and scientific education. It is inspired and follows similar projects from other countries like the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra, Australia, United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, and the English Institute of Sport. The first sports to be offered at Brazil's Olympic Training Center will be athletics, boxing, fencing, water sports, gymnastics, wrestling, judo, taekwondo, table tennis, archery, tennis, badminton and weightlifting.

Construction begun in 2009, and was finished in 2016. Funds were planned to come from the Ministry of Sports, from sponsorship contracts and tax incentive laws.

The Olympic Training Center’s operations will be managed by an agenda elaborated according to the main national and international sports events. Following to this calendar, interns in relevant sports will be invited. During this period, the athletes will undergo a battery of tests and will use the physical and professional structure to support their training. At the end, the athletes and the technical committee will return home to continue the training and disseminate knowledge acquired.

The Olympic Tennis stadium has a seating capacity of 8,250 spectators, the Olympic Velodrome 5,000 spectators and the Olympic Aquatics Stadium 18,000 spectators. Arena Carioca 1 (capacity of 16,000 spectators) hosted the Olympic basketball games, and the Paralympic wheelchair basketball and wheelchair rugby games. Arena Carioca 2 (capacity of 10,000 spectators) hosted the Olympic judo and wrestling events, and the Paralympic boccia events. Arena Carioca 3 (capacity of 10,000 spectators) hosted the Olympic taekwondo and fencing competitions and the Paralympic judo and wheelchair fencing tournaments. Future Arena (a temporary structure to be re-purposed after the Games) has a capacity of 12,000 spectators and hosted the Olympic handball matches, and the Paralympic goalball matches.

The venues also have infrastructure to provide services in nutrition, physiotherapy & sports medicine, athlete career support, physiological, biomechanical, psychological and biochemical assessment as well as lecture halls & seminar rooms for education of the athletes.